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Tony Bartelme

Post & Courier

Charleston, SC, United States

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Past articles by Tony:

The week when everything changed

The new coronavirus hit South Carolina like a hurricane this week, with cases rising at an exponential rate and state and public officials scrambling to find ways to contain an → Read More

How we cook our food is killing us. Scientists in SC know why.

Diabetes and cancer scientists have made startling discoveries in recent years about advance glycation end products, also called AGEs. But hardly anyone outside academia knows about these revelations about AGEs. → Read More

Toxic Algae Blooms: A growing worldwide menace that generate mysterious toxins

Senior projects reporter Tony Bartelme reports that harmful algae blooms are a growing worldwide menace, and a lab in Charleston is in the thick of the search to identify unbelievably → Read More

MUSC fights newspaper over information involving alleged cheating scandal

An attorney for the Medical University of South Carolina says it could cost $275,000 to search email servers in connection with an open records inquiry into allegations that two students cheated on exams. → Read More

North Charleston asks feds to help improve its police department

North Charleston on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to do an independent, three-year analysis of its police force, a move city officials hope will restore trust lost a year ago after the shooting death of Walter Scott. → Read More

North Charleston asks feds to help improve police department

North Charleston on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to do an independent, three-year analysis of its police force, a move city officials hope will restore trust lost a year ago after the shooting death of Walter Scott. → Read More

Struck by findings about police shootings, SLED chief calls for more training, money

Stunned by The Post and Courier’s finding that one in four police shootings involve officers who fire at vehicles, SLED Chief Mark Keel said the state needs to spend more time and money on training. → Read More

SLED report on corruption probe includes names of two close to attorney general

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is trying to fire a special prosecutor handling a corruption probe that includes two of his close political associates named in a criminal investigative report, according to sources familiar with the docume → Read More

Texts, emails show AG aide plotted with GOP consultants before news conference over Pascoe

A chief aide of S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson apparently plotted with high-powered Republican consultants before last week’s fiery news conference in which Wilson torched David Pascoe — his own special prosecutor — texts and → Read More

The Duel: Feuding prosecutors, and the meltdown of an ethics probe

It was a long time coming, this grand jury, and the week before Easter special prosecutor David Pascoe was about to pull the trigger. → Read More

South Carolina expert: Many factors at play in fluctuating statistics after police shootings

Some argue that the national focus on police shootings in the past year may cause officers to reduce the intensity of their enforcement duties to avoid being sucked into a new vortex of publicity. → Read More

S.C. attorney general weighs in on ethics case, possible window into prosecutors’ public corruption probe

Amid an ongoing public corruption probe, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office issued a lengthy opinion that may hinder prosecutors’ efforts to crack down on ethics violators. → Read More

Capitol Gains: Vague terms cloak S.C. lawmakers' expenses

S.C. lawmakers use vague descriptions to account for how they use campaign cash. → Read More

Capitol Gains: S.C. politicians use office to pad pockets

How state candidates are using office to enrich themselves → Read More